01/20/2009 Market Recap: What bottom fish signals say again?

The setup of technical indicators is very similar with Jan 14th, where TICK closed below -1000, so tomorrow the market may reverse during the day just like Jan 15th. In this report we will review several important bottom fish signals and see how far the market is from the possible bottom. Again, bottom fishing is very risky even all bottom fish signals are pointing the bottom.

0.0.2 SPY Short-term Trading Signals. Note what the green dashed lines are pointing to, if TICK closes below -1000, the market should sell off further in the next day but the probability of intraday reversal is very high. The worst situation happened on Nov 19th, and the market sold off on the next day and didn't reverse until the very end of trading hours in 21st.

1.0.5 Major Accumulation/Distribution Days. Today is the second major distribution day. According to the past record, there will be some decent rebound after two major distribution days, or the third major distribution day. The possible rebound is of course not confirmed yet, but it's still better than having just one major distribution day.

As a summary, should the technical analysis still works the market may bounce back up tomorrow (in recent several months the market often goes extremely. Before it gets very extreme, it's hard to say if these conventional TA signals still work or not although they used to work very well in the past)

OK, now let's review three bottom fish signals and see where they are, and how many days the market could still drop down in the most possible worst scenario.

2.4.2 NYSE - Issues Advancing. Famous NYADV is not yet oversold. It may take two more days to reach the oversold region. At the worst scenario it may stay at oversold for three days. So we might see five down days afterward if the market gets very very extreme.

T2122 from the Telechart, 4 weeks New High/Low ratio, not oversold yet. If it is oversold, it may stay there for a while.

7.0.7 NYSE - TICK (30 min). See those capitulation of TICK readings under -1000 in last November, compare with the current reading -- again, not yet.